Sustainable design
Towards sustainable design of highway bridges
... 2 KEY CONCEPTS AND APPROACH TO SUSTAINABLE DESIGN OF BRIDGES 2.1 Sustainability objectives and indicators Seven key objectives: public safety, public health, public security, mobility, environment quality, ...
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Educating interior design & architecture clients about sustainable design : issues, perceptions, and expectations
... environment. “Each country has its own building tradition, architecture, building technologies, climate, and culture.” (Zeiler W., 2014, Chapter 1, p: 6). 2.6.2. Halifax, Canada The Canadian example is presented by ...
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Biomimicry and innovation in sustainable design : understanding its innovation supporting characteristics compared to ecodesign
... Design Solution: Industrial symbiosis is part of a new field called industrial ecology which is concerned with the flow of materials and energy through systems at different scales, from products to factories and ...
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Sustainable design of biorefinery processes: existing practices and new methodology
... Challenges and future trends Th e implementation of this new methodology and its associated tools is subject to several barriers. Indeed, these limits can be classifi ed in several groups: barriers linked to the ...
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From Eco-Design to sustainable design : a contribution of the precautionary principle
... The following questions are intended to help explore the decision making process based on the precautionary principle of sustainable development; if possible what ethical framework is us[r] ...
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Sustainable design of oilseed-based biofuel supply chains : the case of Jatropha in Burkina Faso
... The present thesis work contributes to address these issues through the development of a methodology for the design of sustainable biofuel supply chains. It was specifically elaborated in the context of ...
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Beyond transparency : collective engagement in sustainable design
... An open ap- proach to sustainability assessment based on linked data and open source software could create alternative business models for environ- mental, social an[r] ...
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Cooperative innovation in the commons : rethinking distributed collaboration and intellectual property for sustainable design innovation
... Individual and cooperative production occurs within social and institutional settings, which determine the nature of norms, incentives, responsibilities and mechanisms for [r] ...
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Advanced methods for sustainable energy systems in operation and design of district heating networks
... to sustainable design of DHN systems use a multi- perspective approach which is initially based on the works carried out at a small- scale DHN system in Nantes/France (Jamali-Zghal et ...holistic ...
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Sustainable wastewater treatment plants design through multiobjective optimization
... of sustainable development must be ad dressed, which is defined as "the development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the abil ity of future generations to meet their own ...
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Chemical enterprise model and decision-making framework for sustainable chemical product design
... A posteriori, we can assess the sustainability degree of the solution over six dimensions as suggested by Gagnon et al. [43], with sustainability shade ranging from A (minimal) to D (state of the art). The ‘design ...
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Sustainable wastewater treatment plants design through multiobjective optimization
... of sustainable development must be ad dressed, which is defined as "the development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the abil ity of future generations to meet their own ...
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Chemical enterprise model and decision-making framework for sustainable chemical product design
... A posteriori, we can assess the sustainability degree of the solution over six dimensions as suggested by Gagnon et al. [43], with sustainability shade ranging from A (minimal) to D (state of the art). The ‘design ...
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Is the concept of sustainable tourism sustainable? Developing the Sustainable Tourism Benchmarking Tool
... 1. Sustainable tourism indicators – what do we have so far? Most studies assessing tourism activities deal often with one component of ...assess sustainable tourism is found in Ko ...on sustainable ...
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Bilevel optimization of Eco-Industrial parks for the design of sustainable resource networks
... Indeed, previous studies have widely explored Pareto front generation approaches but some numerical problems were encountered especially when a very large number of binary variables is involved. In most cases, choosing ...
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Design of an Accurate and Stiff Wooden Industrial Robot: First Steps towards Robot Eco-sustainable Mechanical Design
... mechanical design Wood is one of the many bio-sourced materials that could help reducing the environmental impact of ...robot design, (ii) wood expects a variability of its properties, has some issues of ...
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Sustainable Development Fund
... by the regulator. This implies that at least the announced cost has to be fixed by a set of independent experts and that the information on the cost has also to include at each date T 0 + h, the list of considered ...
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Optimal Design of a Sustainable Hydrogen Supply Chain Network: Application in an Airport Ecosystem
... to design the HSC, including the capital and operational costs (CAPEX and OPEX) for a given facility that will be used for extrapolation purpose, the throughput associated with a given technology, the quantities ...
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Design of sensor system to monitor napkin usage for sustainable user behavior
... The angle at which a user grabs a napkin, the force that a user yanks a napkin, the speed that a user pulls a napkin, and the level of napkins inside of the dispenser can all [r] ...
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The design of effective policies for the promotion of sustainable construction materials
... of sustainable development can be treated as a yardstick for the degree of overlap and flexibility in a government structure; it is also an indication of the strength of the relationship between the government and ...
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